College-Educated Workers Occupy Key Nodes of the Economy

In the spring of 2022, a group of Chicago Starbucks workers and organizers sat together after filing their union election paperwork, radiating pride and anxiety. When the logistical talk had wound down and everyone had fallen silent, one worker noted that “this is the first time I’ve felt purpose in a really long time.” Noam Scheiber’s book is filled with moments like these, where millennial and Gen Z workers struggle with the operational, emotional, legal, and political contours of organizing…